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Finance Risk & Controls Assurance Specialist
Location: Glasgow
Contract: 12-Month PAYE Contract (Maternity Cover)
Working Pattern: Hybrid, 3 days per week in the office
Start Date: November (subject to onboarding)
Who We Are
Robert Walters is the world's most trusted talent solutions business. Across the globe, we deliver recruitment, outsourcing, and talent advisory services for businesses of all sizes, opening doors for people with diverse skills, ambitions, and backgrounds.
The Opportunity
Our client is seeking an experienced Finance Risk & Controls Assurance Specialist to join its Finance Risk team in Glasgow on a 12-month maternity cover contract. This role sits within a specialist Finance Risk function responsible for overseeing Non-Financial Risk and Controls across the Finance division. Working across multiple Finance disciplines, you will play a key role in assessing the effectiveness of controls, providing independent challenge, analysing risk and controls data, and supporting the ongoing enhancement of the Finance control environment. This is a highly visible position offering broad stakeholder exposure and the opportunity to contribute to key control improvement initiatives within a globally recognised financial institution.
Key Responsibilities
- Review and challenge risk and control information from a quality assurance and governance perspective.
- Assess the design and effectiveness of controls across Finance functions.
- Analyse control failures and determine whether issues relate to control design, execution, oversight or process gaps.
- Perform detailed data analysis to identify trends, themes, emerging risks and opportunities for improvement.
- Support the delivery of Non-Financial Risk and Control activities across the Finance division.
- Produce management information, dashboards, reporting packs and presentations for senior stakeholders.
- Monitor remediation activities and track progress against agreed actions.
- Partner with Finance Risk Leads and business stakeholders to strengthen controls and governance processes.
- Contribute to control enhancement and transformation initiatives as the Finance control environment continues to evolve.
- Support governance activities and provide meaningful insight to assist decision-making.
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About You
You will bring experience from a Risk & Controls, Operational Risk, Controls Assurance, Internal Audit or Governance environment and be comfortable operating in a role that combines analysis, assurance, stakeholder management and constructive challenge. You will have strong attention to detail, enjoy working with data and be able to communicate findings effectively to a range of stakeholders.
Essential Skills & Experience
- Experience within Risk & Controls, Controls Assurance, Operational Risk, Internal Audit or a similar governance-focused environment.
- Strong understanding of risk and control frameworks.
- Experience reviewing, assessing or testing controls.
- Advanced Excel skills and confidence analysing large datasets.
- Ability to identify trends, themes and root causes from complex information.
- Experience producing management reporting, governance packs or stakeholder presentations.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities.
- Ability to provide constructive challenge and influence positive outcomes.
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Desirable Experience
- Banking or Financial Services experience.
- Exposure to Non-Financial Risk frameworks.
- Experience supporting governance forums and senior stakeholder discussions.
- Previous involvement in risk, controls or assurance transformation initiatives.
- Experience working within a highly regulated environment.
What's on Offer?
- Opportunity to join one of the world's leading financial institutions.
- Exposure to senior stakeholders across a broad range of Finance functions.
- A varied role combining controls assurance, governance, stakeholder engagement and data analysis.
- Opportunity to contribute to the ongoing enhancement of Finance risk and control frameworks.
- Valuable experience within a global investment banking environment.
- Potential future opportunities within the organisation following completion of the initial contract
We are committed to creating an inclusive recruitment experience. If you require support or adjustments to the recruitment process, our Adjustment Concierge Service is here to help. Please feel free to contact us at adjustments@robertwalters.com to discuss how we can support you.
This position is being recruited on behalf of our client through our Outsourcing service line. Resource Solutions Limited, trading as Robert Walters, acts as an employment business and agency, partnering with top organizations to help them find the best talent. We welcome applications from all candidates and are committed to providing equal opportunities.
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